Re: Warning: reference to free variable `begin'

* David Kastrup (2005-03-18) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Guess what, one of my favorite problems back from AUCTeX 11.54 made
>> its way to preview-latex.  Upon opening a LaTeX file a *Compile-Log*
>> buffer pops up and says
>>
>> Warning: reference to free variable `begin'
>>
>> The byte compiler obviously ignores the boundp check in the advice for
>> `TeX-region-create' in preview.el and barfs.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Anybody have a better idea than (symbol-value 'begin)?

Not really.  Looks okay.

> Or a better way to get at the desired information in the first place?
> Peeking at the "begin" variable in an enclosing function is really
> dirty.

You could use the same way to determine the variable as in
`TeX-command-region'.  But then you still have to deal with a
potentially undefined variable.

> We should rip out the advice anyway (or only use it conditionally with
> older, non-bundled AUCTeX) and fix AUCTeX and/or provide proper hooks.
>
> I have not seen this problem here, Ralf.  Does it vanish for you if
> you remove the "preactivated" bit?  Maybe then the advice does not get
> compiled.

No change after removing "preactivate".  The *Compile-Log* buffer
still appears.

-- 
Ralf